Cambridge University Press recently released The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction edited by Eric Carl Link and Gerry Canavan, a sequel, of sorts, to 2003's The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Show More Summary

France's Piketty faces a challenge from a very young American economist Belknap Press | Harvard University Press The story currently making the rounds in the financial blogs is that a 26-year-old MIT graduate, Matt Rognlie, has finally...Show More Summary

Days after Texas fired him, Rick Barnes will be moving to the SEC as the next head coach at the University of Tennessee.
According to ESPN.com's Jeff Goodman, Barnes and Tennessee have finalized the deal with a press conference coming...Show More Summary

A new biography of Mark Twain (1835-1910) has been published by Harvard University Press. Roy Morris Jr.’s 279-page American Vandal: Mark Twain Abroad takes off at the point when Twain embarked on the cruise ship, The Quaker City, in 1867 when the writer was 31-years-old. Show More Summary

Excerpted from Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek. Out now from Princeton University Press.
In the movie Dawn of the Dead (1978) there is a scene when anarchist outlaws break into the mall that the movie’s heroes had secured and lived in for weeks. Show More Summary

After waiting for nearly two decades, the WWE Universe will witness “The Icon” Sting wrestle his first match for the WWE at Wrestlemania 31, but his first may also be his last. In an interview with the Associated Press, the 56-year-old...Show More Summary

At a press conference announcing the findings of an investigation into a racist chant that prompted the shuttering of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s Oklahoma University chapter and the expulsion of two fraternity members, OU President David Boren saluted the student activists of Unheard, who first brought the now widely viewed SAE video to light.

NEW BRITAIN, CT—Calling a strong independent press “absolutely vital” to a democratic society, the staff of The Recorder, Central Connecticut State University’s student-run newspaper, confirmed Friday they know exactly how t...

The University of Tennessee Volunteers fired basketball Coach Donnie Tyndall after just one season, the school confirmed in a press release on Friday. University officials cite an ongoing NCAA investigation into “another institution as the cause of his termination. “It is highly likely that Coach Tyndall will face significant penalties at the conclusion of the […]

Amanda Harris. Fruits of Eden: David Fairchild and America’s Plant Hunters. University Press of Florida, 2015. I blurbed this one: If you have ever wondered how navel oranges, figs, avocados, dates, and other such foods came to be grown in America, here’s the answer: plant explorers. Amanda Harris tells the stories of adventurers sent out […]

On March 27, 1947, the press reported on the Hutchins Commission report about the media.
Robert M. Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, served as the chair of the 1940s Commission on the Freedom of the Press. Time magazine’s...Show More Summary

Adanna Duru was one of two contestants voted off American Idol by the viewers of the reality singing competition show, The Press Enterprise reported today. Duru, a student at the University of California, Riverside and Maddie Walker received the lowest votes of all the contestants on American Idol. Show More Summary

This week, HarperCollins is hiring a senior manager of integrated marketing, while St. Martin’s Press needs a digital editor. Oxford University Press is seeking a publicist, and Quarto Publishing is on the hunt for an editorial director. Show More Summary

Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
by Annie Cohen-Solal
Yale University Press, 281 pages, $25
What is it that gives the paintings of Mark Rothko their tremendous power? Why do those squares of vibrating color, that seem to float...Show More Summary

Collaboration with University of Maryland students highlights journalists jailed worldwide New York, March 26, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched the Press Uncuffed: Free the Press campaign at the Newseum in Washington to raise awareness about journalists imprisoned around the world in connection with their coverage of news...